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hisiorical chronicle. 



liave been taken. 



The last nccounts from 

 New South Wales arc said 

 to be Ci a dreadful nature. 

 The whole settlement were 



right, upwards of,fAv /Z;o«xf<7ffrt' which left the Malabar coast 



tiie latter end of January, and 

 brings advice that Chittel- 

 droog was certainly taken 

 from Tippoo, in which vast 

 supplies of grain, and sums of 

 put upon lliort allowarvce, on i specie had been found. The. 

 account of the extreme Scnr- > captain mentions also, that 

 city of provisions, and the \ ihe Mahrattas were very ac- 

 crops raising at Fort Jaclcson, | tive in our cause, and had 

 -.vcre of the most uii favour- 

 able kind ; the most pvcjmising 

 not likely to yield three liu!h- 

 els for one sown ; and, in ma- 

 ay parts, even the seed was 

 rot expected to be returned. 

 Norfolk island did not pro- 

 uuee corn enough tor its own 

 inhabitants. in lliort, the 

 prospect of the whole settle- 

 ment was deplorable in the 

 txtreme. 



In consequence of these ac- 

 counts, orders are said to have 

 hren sent to Pertsmouth, that 

 the fliips destitted for that 

 place f.'-ould be detained. 

 A Paris pa<«pr dated Sun 



niiljcd our aimy with plen- 

 ty of horses to remount the 

 <?valry ; that lord Cornwallis 

 was in his way to, if he had 

 not already besieged Geringa- 

 patf m 5 that Tippoo was much 

 diiheartcned •, and that very 

 great desertion prevailed thro" 

 all iiis army. 



The clerks in the State Of- 

 fice for foreign affairs, most of 

 whom have been manv years 

 in oihce upon very small sa- 

 laries, (^though chietly mar- 

 ried men v.ith large families) 

 have lately had their salaries 

 increased. For this act of 

 humanity r;n4 benevolence, 

 diy, April 8, after stating tiie they are greatly b'^holden to 



particulars of the late anair In 

 the Er.st Indies, afserts that 

 our minister has sent ont or- 

 ders to try Sir Richard Stra- 

 chan fcr his conduct •, and a- 

 pologlse to the rrencli na- 

 tion for the outrage oifered to 

 thtir flag.J ■' 



Governor Brooke, of St 

 flelena, in hi>i dispatches to 

 the Court of Directors, men- 

 tions, that a French fliip call- 

 ed the Bengal, was arrived 

 there ia her way to France^ 



the generous exertions of his 

 grace th; duke oi Leeds, their 

 iaie principal. 



Extract of a letter from on 

 haard the Ariel at Tiihcherry, 

 Dec. 23. 1791. 



" VV^e are now keeping a 

 (liarp look out on this coast,, 

 and dp.ily expecl; the French 

 commodore h:re, v, ho has an 

 cquul force, and probably will- 

 resent the insult to their fiag», 

 in which case we have every 

 reason to expect an obstiaj.:e. 



